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  • HP Strategy Leaves Opening for Apple, Dell: Analysts

    Hewlett-Packard’ s plan to spin off its Personal Systems Group, its PC manufacturing arm, could damage the company s position with small to midsize businesses, according to a pair of analysts. ” Our prognosis is that without PSG, HP’ s value proposition will be much weaker in SMBs,” Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe, analysts with…

  • IT Security Challenged By Hackers, Mobile, Social Media

    Security professionals are most concerned about targeted attacks, external hackers and insider threats, according to a recent report from Symantec. Their jobs are made more challenging by industry trends such as mobile computing, social media and the consumerization of IT, the survey found. Nearly 50 percent of IT security professionals surveyed said external threats pose…

  • Content and Network Security See Strong Growth

    The global content security gateway market continues to gain at a steady clip, growing at more than double the rate of standard network security products according to a new report out by analysts with Infonetics Research. The report found that security gateway appliances and software market sales grew 8 percent in the second quarter of…

  • IBM to Acquire i2 to Accelerate Big Data Analytics

    Technology giant IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire i2, a provider of intelligence analytics for crime and fraud prevention based in Cambridge, UK with U.S. headquarters in McLean, Va., to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients in the public and private sectors address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms of the…

  • Lenovo’s IdeaPad U300s Targets Macbook Air

    Lenovo has introduced three new “luxury” laptops, taking a swing at Apple’s MacBook Air. Lenovo’s IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook and Lenovo’s U300 and U400 laptops combine performance with good looks, according to Lenovo. "People will be wowed with the new U Series systems from Lenovo that combine incredible performance in beautiful and stylish designs," said Mooly…

  • VMware Unveils Database as a Service Offering

    VMware has announced vFabric Data Director, a new platform to deliver a Database as a Service solution for the enterprise. Announced at the company s VMworld 2011 conference, vFabric Data Director presents a new database provisioning and operations solution designed to deliver a Database as a Service (DaaS) model for the enterprise. VMware s vFabric…

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